Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-08-18

SCHOOL AND cssunoti
-0f tie 1.see Bapel.t passors IN H.
gland. LIS are pledged abstainsrA
The Christian nations are he hops.
ful and progressive nationA-Rea Z
J. Ssce0e
-Princetoa theological Seminary
graduated 81 young ministers At it, ~
sent commencement and Union Thso-
logical Seminary so
The Metropolitan Tabernacle. Lon
don (Spurgeon's). reports = membse-
shipof 1851. During the past year 3N
have been aAdea BY baptism
During the last year nineteen now
missionaries were accepted for servic0
by the English Baptist Missionary So
eiety: eight for China. nix for the Con-
90. three for India and two for Ceylon.
"A wellknwn professor gave notice
that he could not meet his Glasses"
A wag deleted the CO. and made u
..lasses." Tho professor again deleted
the 81" and finished by having the best
Of it
Five young women Of the junior
class Of Colby University carried Of tho.
class honors. The boys are trying ~
excuse themselves on the ground that
they devoted q good part Of the time to
athletics
Foreign Bible societies apparently
do more to supply Germany with Bibles
than do the German societies them-
selves. Last year the native societies
circulated 214,318 copies of the Scrip
lures. while foreign societies sold by
colporteurs, ETC.. in Germany SIS. 74S
copies.
Rev. Mr.. Tong. Chinese Baptist
preacher, delivers exhortationsi in front
Of large pagan temple in Chinatown.
San Francisco, every Sabbath after.
noon. He attracts crowds Of NongOl-
ians. and distributes little books ON
religious subjects printed in Chinese
United PTes6yterian.
AT a recent meeting Of the trus.
tees of Franklin Academy, Nebraska.
$500 were pledged toward paying tho
s., 500 indebtedness. The last q1ar.
ter. several hundred from strangers
have been received. Mrs. r. Gaylord,
wife of the first hsme missionary su-
perintendent for Nebraska. sends 500.
|-Congregationalist.
The late Mr.. w. ID. Alexander has
left sum of 100000 to be distributed
amongst the following London charities
in the aforementioned proportions. viz:
London City Mission. flO. 900; Disabled
Fund of the London City Mission. ESQ.,
600; British and Foreign Bible Society.
ElO.0OO; Religious Tract Society. ElQ-
600, and London Missionary Society
Pension Fund. 100000
News from Russia states that
three Armenian Protestant mission
aries, residing in Tiflis. have been ex-
lied to Siberia One of those. who
had many followers and pupils and
who had translated the English Bible
into two Eastern languages, was e1-
tremely popular and had reached tho
age of sixty years. Just before Easter
all three were arrested. imprisoned
like criminals, and sent on their way
to Siberia CSncianati Times.
AT the recent anniversary Of Alb
bot Female Academy, of Andover. .
novel method was started to secure
funds towards new buildings. Four
persons. each taking the letter "a"
to identify himself, paid in ten cents,
and worked to secure four other per-
sons, who were called "Bs." each Of
whom were solicited to give ten cents.
and to find four other persons to con-
time the arithmetical progression UNI
til the entire alphabet had been used.
A person who was willing to give
without finding successors was solicit
ed for dollar. Up to last accounts.
the mothod was working admirably
Cleveland Leader.